April « 2013 « OSU Libraries eNews

The eBook Academic Subscription Collection is a growing eBook complement to Academic Search Complete – covering the same broad spectrum of academic subjects with search results integrated on the EBSCOhost platform. There are more titles from the publishers customers say are most important (e.g. Cambridge University Press, ABC-CLIO, Sage). Since the initial release, EBSCO has added a large number of quality titles and over 50 respected publishers, including Taylor & Francis, CRC Press, Columbia University Press, University of California Press, and more.

This OSU Trial runs through 6/10/2013.

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OSU Libraries is now trialing BrowZine a service for iPad by Third Iron. After installing BrowZine you can easily browse and read OSU Libraries and open access journals. BrowZine’s interface creates an enhanced browsing and reading experience. You can mark your favorite journals and articles and save journals onto the “shelf” display. Additional tasks also available. ProfHacker recently reviewed it. (see Figure 1.)

This OSU Trial runs through 7/15/2013.

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BrowZine

SpringerMaterials – The Landolt-Börnstein Database is a systematic comprehensive database of selected and critically assessed data in the physical sciences. You will have access to more than 250,000 substances & material systems, 3,000 properties and more than 1,2 million literature references.

This OSU Trial runs through 6/30/2013.

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Similar to the Science Index and Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index provides quick and powerful access to the bibliographic and citation information needed to find research data, analyze trends, journals, and researchers. It indexes over 1,700 of the world’s leading arts and humanities journals.

This OSU Trial runs through 5/15/2013.

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Access an array of data across subjects and regions, providing a comprehensive picture of research output to understand data in context and maximize research efforts. The Data Citation Index provides a single point of access to quality research data from repositories across disciplines and around the world. Users can:

Discover and attribute — or receive — credit for the creation of scholarly digital research data
Pinpoint primary research by understanding the impact of the scholarly research it supports
Measure the contribution of digital research in specific disciplines and identify potential collaborators

This OSU Trial runs through 5/15/2013.

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OATD is a discovery service intended to help put researchers and scholars in touch with the valuable and unique OA content in college and university ETD collections. It works with each site’s metadata to index only records that are actually ETDs and are freely available online. In addition to harvested metadata, it includes a growing amount of full text “snippets” and sample images to help guide searchers.